Feeling the same way about all this. It might also be spurred by the belated honeymoon my wife and I just took back to her home state of Florida, where we had the extremely lucky opportunity to watch the launch of STS-127 from the Banana Creek (aka, Saturn V ) viewing center. Sat with the mother-in-law of astronaut Tim Kopra and other relatives.
Wil -- believe me when I tell you this -- if you've never gone, write your congress person and ask for a VIP viewing pass (only way to get to Banana Creek) because it's an experience that I, and you, will never forget.
...and listening to the radio replay is really, really cool.

When I was a kid, I read this cool book from National Geographic called Let's Go To The Moon. It was, as you may have figured out, all about the Apollo program, but mostly focused on Apollo 11. I already liked science fiction and astronomy (well, the little-kid-without-a-telescope version of ast...